Eh?

The Top Politically Correct Words and Phrases for 2004:

1. "Device" for master and "captured device" for slave in computer networking terminology
2. Non-same sex marriage, for marriage used in Democratic Presidential Primaries
3. Waitron for waiter or waitress
4. Red Sox Lover for Yankee Hater during the ALCS playoffs
5. "Higher Power" for God
6. Progressive for classical liberal
7. Incurious rather than more impolite invectives for President Bush (such as idiot or moron)
8. Insurgents substituting for terrorists in Iraq
9. Baristas rather than waitrons
10. First year student rather than Freshman, though Frosh is still acceptable.

From The Global Language Monitoring Police. Details on the above and more interesting stuff at the GLM site: www.languagemonitor.com/

can I just ask - what the fk is that all about?

Lewis: Well, why not? I for one was pleased to learn of another intriguing site to feed my insatiable lust for neologisms--DH

I'm just curious, Dale. As one who lusts for juicy young neologisms, would you describe yourself as an "encyclopaedophile"?

I don't understand your question. This site is for the discussion of phrases. At least, that was the original intent.

phrases, sayings and idioms at
The Phrase Finder--An idiom can be a single word--DH

Who are you people?

Trolls. If we ignore them, maybe they'll go away.